Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that he is in fine health during a hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court for a libel suit Netanyahu filed against two journalists and a political activist for claiming he was suffering from various serious diseases in 2024.

“My health situation is fine, some would say excellent,” Netanyahu told the court, according to Hebrew media reports.

Netanyahu said he never suffered from pancreatic cancer, as activist Gonen Ben Yitzhak had claimed, saying he would have died by now if that had been correct.

The prime minister detailed the surgery for an enlarged prostate he underwent in December 2024 and his subsequent diagnosis that he had prostate cancer, which he said happened “toward the end of 2025.”

The tumor was “eight millimeters, and the doctors told me there were two possibilities — to treat it, or not, and that a lot of people simply live with it,” he said.

“And my approach is that if I identify a danger, and an indication is brought to me in time — in matters of state and personally — I take care of it and destroy it,” he said, alluding to his frequent claim that he hadn’t been warned by the security establishment about Hamas’s planning of the onslaught of October 7, 2023.

Netanyahu said he underwent five treatments for radiation therapy in January and February of this year, and that these treatments totally eradicated the cancer.

The account provided the first public revelation of the timeline for his cancer, the existence of which he only revealed last month.

The information appeared to be somewhat at odds with a statement by the doctor who headed the team that dealt with Netanyahu’s cancer treatment, Prof. Aron Popovtzer, who said at the end of April that the prime minister started radiation therapy “about two and a half months ago,” which would have been in the second week of........

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